"Habitual criminal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... paragraph is worth quoting: "Power consists in having a million bayonets behind you. Its diffusion is not general. But there are people who possess it. For one, the German Kaiser. Not long since somebody or other diagnosed in him the habitual criminal. We doubt that he is that. But we suspect that, were it not for the press, he would show more of primitive man than he has thus far thought judicious." Has Mme. de Thebes done better? Saltus also foresaw Gertrude Stein. Peering into the future he wrote: "When that day comes the models ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten
... "It's very good of you to draw that parallel. Your construction of the situation does credit to your sense of what is polite, sir. Unfortunately for me, however, my position is more like that of the habitual criminal who is sent to the penitentiary periodically. I have to go, whether ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs
... of criminaloid, who develops into an habitual criminal is well illustrated by the case of Eyraud, who in conjunction with Gabrielle Bompard, murdered Gouffre and packed the corpse in a trunk. Through his marked weakness for women, Eyraud became successively a deserter, a ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero |
